GRE Word List
PENDULOUS
poised without visible support
The meaning of the word pendulous is poised without visible support.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| embargo | an order of a government prohibiting the departure of commercial ships from its ports |
| importune | to press or urge with troublesome persistence |
| facile | easily accomplished or attained |
| scurry | to move in or as if in a brisk pace : scamper |
| microcosm | a little world |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| animated | endowed with life or the qualities of life : alive |
| bard | a tribal poet-singer skilled in composing and reciting verses on heroes and their deeds |
| snub | to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke |
| sherbet | a cold drink of sweetened and diluted fruit juice |